I remember when many last year including Labor complained last year's budget projections were way too pessimistic.Well, if you don't support raising relatively efficient taxes, and you do support Abbott for cutting the taxes but not associated spending, then exactly how do you propose they get the budget towards a more even keel?
They've distanced themselves from the Murray Financial Review.
So I'm wondering what justification they'll provide for the $50B deficit that's coming our way. Surely it' only wasteful spending and incompetence that could see the budget blow out that badly, well at least that's what Hockey was gleefully saying in opposition.
What are Labor's policies beyond bringing back a carbon price, a mining tax, not turning back the boats and how would they fund it ?
I posed that as a question.
The Coalition during that period said they would scrap the carbon and mining and taxes and stop the boats.What did we hear of Coalition policies during the 6 years they were in Opposition ?
The fact is that Oppositions don't have to release any policies until the election campaign (sometimes not even then), so don't hold your breath waiting for about 18 months at least.
A future Labor government cannot simply switch back the National Broadband Network to a fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) model, shadow communications minister Jason Clare has said. Even so, Labor wants to come up with a policy that moves Australia towards a fibre future, Clare said today at the CommsDay NBN Rebooted conference.
“None of it’s simple, and [Communications Minister] Malcolm Turnbull showed just how hard it is to change from one model to another,” said Clare.
“What I’ll do is spend the next 12 to 18 months working with [stakeholders] about what our policy should be.
“But the underlying principle here is that … the endgame is fibre. The question is how and when would we get there? The original policy was you do it in one stage. Now it’s going to have to be done in two.”
The Coalition during that period said they would scrap the carbon and mining and taxes and stop the boats.
What are Labor's policies beyond bringing back a carbon price, a mining tax, not turning back the boats and how would they fund it ?
I posed that as a question.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...out-return-of-carbon-tax-20141011-114nmp.html"We will not have a carbon tax, the Australian people have spoken and Labor is not going to go back to that"
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...or-declares-bill-shorten-20140909-10eccc.html"The mining tax that was repealed, we won't be bringing back"
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...the-boats-richard-marles-20141026-11bym6.html"We get the impact but we do have anxieties about the policies, we're open minded about it," Mr Marles said.
If there was a situation where Indonesia were co-operating with this policy I think that's a complete game-changer"
You didn't read my post carefully enough.Where are you getting this from drsmith?
“The mining tax that was repealed, we won’t be bringing back,” Shorten told Adelaide radio station FiveAA on Tuesday.
Bill Shorten has left the door open to drawing up a new federal mining tax, but emphasised that any such proposal would follow consultation with state governments and the resources industry.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has drawn a line under debate in the Labor Party over a policy shift on asylum seekers, slapping down immigration spokesman Richard Marles' suggestion the ALP could embrace boat turn backs.
You didn't read my post carefully enough.
I said carbon price and Labor's policy is to introduce an ETS.
Mining tax,
But in the same breath,
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/09/bill-shorten-labor-could-new-mining-tax
On boat turn backs, Richard Marles was overruled by Bill Shorten after Tanya Plibersek cracked the whip on that particular suggestion.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-polit...or-support-for-turnbacks-20141028-11cwt6.html
If they are winning, it's because the other side is rubbish
I don't think so Rumpy...You see the Fabians have control of most of the media outlets and present their propaganda to the naive and it is the subtle way they go about without people really knowing what they are doing....The Green/Labor left wing socialist have put a lot of thought into their modus operandi...... They have the ABC, SBS, GETUP, Insiders with Barry Cassidy, QandA with Tony Jones, Media report and the support of the Fairfax newspaper...I should also include Kochie on channel 7....All are so biased against any form of conservative governments and take every opportunity in discrediting the Liberal Government when ever they can....Now please don't tell me that is not true.
Any sane thinking person could see what they have been up to, but who knows things might change for the better I hope.
I assume you have your tongue in cheek while saying this ?
Has Tony Abbott's old mate Rupert turned into a Fabian ? Alan Jones ? Ray Hadley ? Andrew Bolt ?
Some of the above have been refreshingly honest and said that TA isn't up to the job.
Maybe things are changing for the better.
What are Labor's policies beyond bringing back a carbon price, a mining tax, not turning back the boats and how would they fund it ?
I posed that as a question.
Do you ever hear the ABC pounding Shorten why he is being is in denial over the mess Labor left and why he is not part of the solution to fix that mess?
The Coalition during that period said they would scrap the carbon and mining and taxes and stop the boats.
Labor in government at the same time were watching the boats increase and delivering their fantasy budget surpluses.
The fact oppositions don't release and cost policy detail earlier is a broader deficiency of our political culture. The pickings though from Labor at the moment are extremely thin.
As it presently stands, they don't even have an NBN policy.
http://www.computerworld.com.au/art...-fibre-future-still-working-nbn-policy-clare/
My bolds.
Have you ever been to a meeting of the Fabian Society Noco?I haven't-but I believe that they are a think tank,centre or centre left,after new ideas to improve society.Ideas that benefit the population at large.
What they are not is a reactionary, conservative think tank.If I was called a Fabian it would mean that I was an original thinker.I may even be proud of that.
On another matter----Have you had a few bad weeks Noco?
.Look at the poverty in South Korea.
That is because they are unbiased and had good reason to be critical
.
Do you ever hear the ABC and their associate programs rubbish Bill Shorten for not passing the $5 billion of their own savings in the Government budget?
Do you hear the ABC rubbish Gillian Trigg for her old report on children in detention in the Labor era while trying to make Abbott look bad?
Do you ever hear the ABC pounding Shorten why he is being is in denial over the mess Labor left and why he is not part of the solution to fix that mess?
Do you ever hear any criticism from the ABC about the Queensland Labor party over the $80 billion debt left by the previous Bligh government.
Perhaps you now begin to understand my point when I say that democratic socialism (communism) is winning...Control the media and you control how people vote.....discredit the current government on every minute detail....make up and exaggerate where they can..Even AM Agenda on SKY news is starting to irritate me...They also have become biased towards the Labor Party.
Correction : That should have been North Korea ....thanks for revealing that to me.South Korea is doing fine last I heard.
Labor lied about the deficit....the week before the 2013 election they stated $18 billion when in actual gact it was $48 billion.Hmm. What's happened to the Hockey 2018 surplus?
What's happened to the projected budget deficit this year? Looks like it's going to hit $50B. How is that labor's fault?
How is the internet tax fixing the budget? How is school champlains? How does the GP tax fix the budget long term? How can Abbott honestly say he's trying to balance the budget when the pension and super are off limits - they are the 2 largest budget outlays.
I'm hoping you can provide the policies from the Abbott Govt that improve productivity. Mind you, Labor productivity is quite sterling. last year it was 1.3%, while capital productivity fell by 2%. Can you imagine that, workers being dragged down by management's poor capital allocation. Those dastardly fabians one upping the C level execs.
You seem to be describing the Abbott opposition play book. Create an air of crisis, block at every front, force the Govt to look weak and as if it can't get anything done.
How is the media treating Abbott any differently to how it treated Rudd or Gillard? Specific examples would be welcome rather than gross generalisations.
Labor lied about the deficit....the week before the 2013 election they stated $18 billion when in actual gact it was $48 billion.
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